Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I know I’m not myself with people, but am I myself when alone? That seems unlikely, too.

Americans have it right. Europeans are not in an evangelical — or a bellicose — mood. Indeed, sometimes I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming: that what many people in my own country now hold against Germany, which wreaked such horrors on the world for nearly a century — the new "German problem," as it were — is that Germans are repelled by war; that much of German public opinion is now virtually ... pacifist!